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A Modern Look at Freedman's Box Model
2019
Technological Innovations in Statistics Education
This paper revisits the box model, a metaphor developed by Freedman, Pisani, and Purves (1978) to explain sampling distributions and statistical inference to introductory statistics students. The basic idea is to represent all random phenomena in terms of drawing tickets at random from a box. In this way, random sampling from a population can be described in the same way as everyday phenomena, like coin tossing and card dealing. For Freedman et al. (1978) , box models were merely a thought
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